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Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time cover artvsSonic Colors: Ultimate cover art

Prince of Persia: The Sands of TimevsSonic Colors: Ultimate

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Sonic Colors: Ultimate leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION5 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
Prince of Persia: The Sands of TimeSonic Colors: Ultimate

Axis by axis

Execution5 vs 6

Sonic Colors: Ultimate leans harder on execution: High-speed platforming punishes mistimed jumps and drifts

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 1

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization6 vs 6

Even - both lean on optimization about the same.

Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.

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Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

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Sonic Colors: Ultimate